Holidays

This is probably our last post for 2007. Wednesday we had our good-bye lunch with Padi & Hamish, cause they'll be in New Zealand till January 20. Thursday there was the farewell dinner with Pelo & Jeff; they'll spend Christmas in Florida. Saturday is dedicated to the big do at Botswana University for Bernhard, who is retiring. Early Sunday morning we'll drive halfway Maputo.


Crossing the Botswana/RSA-border and vice versa is easy. The middle name of a lot of RSA-officials is Corruption, but by now we know the usual scams, and we look local enough (Bram's Tswana and Maud's Afrikaans also helps) to get over unscarred. Word has it the Mozambican side of the border is a challenge, and our Portuguese is very, very little. Word also has it Monday-afternoon, when we'll cross, isn't that bad...
Anyway, we're well ahead of the big holiday-migration, and we'll drive back before everyone else returns, so that should help. The first week of January we hope to post our Moz- & Swazi-adventures.


Our Botswana cell-numbers will be out of the air until December 30 or 31. Part of the time our South African cell-numbers will work, and when we get our hands on a Moz-sim-card, we'll text the number to Bram's siblings.
We wish you all a very merry Christmas and a wonderful start of 2008!